Nice front vroom, in fairness.
“Niall ‘Harbo’ Harbison [Controversial, web-bothering click ‘ho’] has put his Ranelagh, Dublin pad on the market.. Maybe he’s off to the northside?”
FIGHT!
Yearly Archives: 2014
The twentysomething “pull-out generation”.
Poster demographic for unprotected sex.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett writes:
“Add an abnormal smear test result into the mix (pre-cancerous cells on the cervix are usually caused by human papillomavirus, HPV; up to eight out of 10 people will be infected with it at some point. As a character in Girls says, “all adventurous girls” have it) and I became pretty convinced of the importance of strapping it up…”
Splutter.
Unsafe Sex; why everyone’s at it (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslettt Guardian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx2EP-6he-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpeZDzQhqyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1AQv6hI2oo
Via today’s Irish News (unavailable online)
NI First Minister Peter Robinson has voiced support for the Belfast preacher whose firebrand sermon is at the centre of a hate crime investigation.
The DUP leader said that in the past he had joined the congregation of Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle to listen to Pastor James McConnell (above) preach and that he intended to go back to the church in the future.
He described the preacher as “somebody who has lived his life for Christ”. The first minister said it was “the duty of any Christian preacher to denounce false doctrine”. “That’s a duty – so he’s perfectly entitled to do that – it’s an appropriate thing for a minister to do”, he said.
The DUP leader also said he did not trust Muslims who had been involved in “terrorist activities” or those who were “fully devoted to Sharia Law”. But he did say he would “trust them to go down the shops for me” and undertake other day-to-day tasks.
Right so.
No word from the First Minister about the homophobic sermons then?
Peter Robinson under fire for backing Pastor James McConnell’s Islamic remarks (BBC News)
Wolverine
at
[Jordan Belfort in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin last night]
He advised the [2,500] mostly sales personnel and entrepreneurs in attendance to take action. “Successful people take action: they are not held back by their fears. They move into situations that stretch them.”
$80 a ticket.
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ on the prowl in Dublin (IPamela Newenham, Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
Me So Tony
atPaul from East Cork says he didn’t need any degree to be an Anthony Hopkins lookalike… Er… What do you think? pic.twitter.com/SZxdnWdFlQ
— 96fm Opinion Line (@OpinionLine96) May 28, 2014
Uncanny.
Former Fianna Fáil senator Dan Kiely is pressing ahead with a legal challenge to the result of the local election in the Listowel electoral area. The now independent candidate lost out by just two votes to Fine Gael’s Mike Kennelly in the final count – a result that was upheld in a recount demanded by Mr Kiely on Sunday.
Mr Kiely is now going to the courts in an effort to force another recount – one that will allow him to look at the 173 spoiled votes in the Listowel local electoral area.
Mr Kiely said that neither he nor any of his agents were party to the adjudication on the invalid votes on Saturday and did not have an opportunity to examine them before the recount.
Former Senator lost out by two votes (Dónal Nolan, The Kerryman) (not available online)
Economist Colm McCarthy, Dr Edgar Morgenrath, of the ESRI, and Elizabeth Arnett, head of communications at Irish Water. Ms Arnett is the former head of project communications at consultancy firm, RPS, which advised Dublin City Council on the Poolbeg incinerator project when managing director of Irish Water John Tierney was Dublin City Manager
Last night, the first half of RTÉ’s Prime Time focused on Irish Water. In an initial report by Barry Cummins, the matter of last summer’s deal made between the Government and the 35 local authorities – the 12-year Service Level Agreements – was discussed.
The agreements essentially mean that the pre-existing structures and staff in relation to the provision of water will remain in place for 12 years before transferring into Irish Water.
This is what some of the contributors had to say:
Colm McCarthy: “There had to be some transitional arrangement but 12 years seems like an awful long time and, to the degree, that the intention of having a single water authority was to economise on costs, having 12-year service agreements with all the existing operators means there won’t be any savings for 12 years.”
Dr Edgar Morgenrath: “Personally, I would not have put those service level agreements into legislation. That’s going to be very difficult if you find that you want to change that, to do so. I think that could have been done on a contractual basis. And if Irish Water were simply just an amalgamation of the water services of the 34 local authorities, as they existed previously, then there wouldn’t be any efficiency gains and that would certainly be a wasted opportunity.”
Elizabeth Arnett: “We can’t underestimate the scale of the transformation programme that we’re undertaking. The service level agreement provides mechanisms in order to make the sorts of changes that we need to see over those 12 years, so it’s not a steady state for 12 years.”
Watch back here
Meanwhile…
Interesting slide on communication strategy (PR) from presentation given by Irish Water’s Elizabeth Arnett pic.twitter.com/dAmTsvgWhJ
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) May 27, 2014
Breaking Bud
at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHwnOg_Le3w
The Irish Daily Mail’s hatstand coverage of One Direction’s reefer madness.
Can this be remotely shocking to anyone?
ANYONE!?
*prepares ‘six-skinner’*
Celebrity journalists fear,
They’re missing the news of year,
They’re all worried sick,
That they won’t get a pic,
Of America’s most famous rear.
John Moynes
(AP)
